Curphey Peaks
| Curphey Peaks | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 18 ′ S , 163 ° 23 ′ E | |
The Curphey Peaks are two snow-covered mountains, each around 1760 m high, in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . They tower on the east side of Helix Pass in the Bowers Mountains .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1983 after Ian Curphey, head of research for the geological team led by Malcolm Gordon Laird (1935-2015), who carried out explorations in the area between 1974 and 1975 as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program .
Web links
- Curphey Peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Curphey Peaks on geographic.org (English)